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Grab the free workbook for this blues licks lesson: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/blues-lesson-1-day-book-giveaway-copy Blues Licks Lesson- 7 Blues Licks Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King, Albert King, Eric Clapton Style You Need to Know In this blues licks lesson you'll learn 7 blues licks you need to know from the playing of blues guitar legends like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, BB King, Eric Clapton and others. All these licks are played in the key of A and are using the A minor pentatonic scale. Let's look at blues lick 1 0:46 Blues Lick 1. If there was ever a must know blues lick then this is probably it! It's used by all the blues guitar greats like Eric Clapton, SRV, Albert King etc and is a powerful lick to begin your blues solos with. 2:06 Blues Lick 2. This lick is borrowed from Stevie Ray Vaughan and is a lick he loved to play. Listen to his album Texas Flood to here licks like this used a lot. 3:14 Blues Lick 3. Albert King is an influential blues playe

This 60 second blues guitar lesson shows you a killer blues guitar bend you can start using in your blues solos today! This bend is a favourite of blues guitar legends like BB King and Peter Green, listen out for it in their blues soloing. best of all I'll have you playing this bend in just 60 seconds! We're going to play it in the key of A up at the 12th fret. Notice how the bend is extended onto the end of the sliding blues scale or minor pentatonic pattern. This makes it easy to find when you want to use it, so make sure to check this out. To use the bend grab it and bend it up 3 frets. Might take some push but with a little practice you'll get there! Then stick on a blues backing track and have a go at using it in your soloing. It's a simple but powerful blues guitar trick you won't want to be without from now on. have fun! For more details please visit Our Website - https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/ LET'S CONNECT! Blog - https://jamesshipwayguitar

These palm muting tips will help you to power up your palm muting technique and get those chunky power chord riffs sounding awesome and heavy...like you hear in music by Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera and other great metal bands. This guitar technique can take a little practice to get right, but by following the palm muting tips in this lesson you'll be able to avoid some of the most common mistakes players make. I'm muting an E5 chord in this lesson. Hand position is important when palm muting chords. Too far back near the bridge, or too far forward and your palm muting won't hit the spot! Aim to pick at around the base of the neck pickup in your guitar, this will probably put your hand in the right sort of area. Keep your palm muting hand soft and relaxed, we don't want to push down on the strings. Try muting hard, then soft and switch between them. This will help you learn to feel the best level of pressure/relaxation to get the sound you like. Good luck! For more

Playing a guitar solo on a ballad is your chance to show the expressive and emotional side of your guitar playing chops! But there are challenges with playing a guitar solo in this style. How can you play a more melodic guitar solo? How should you use phrasing and space? Are there any tricks the guitar gods use when playing a guitar solo on a ballad and can you use them too? And can you learn how to play an emotional guitar solo which sounds epic, or is it an ability you either have or you don't!? Stay tuned, because I think you can learn to play a killer guitar solo on a ballad! And in this guitar lesson, I'll point you towards 5 powerful soloing tips which are based on what you hear in the playing of 'power ballad' masters like David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Steve Vai, Slash and other great players. Follow these tips and explore and practice them and you will hear a difference when you step up to play a solo...and over time and with practice you can become an expressive

Legato licks can sound awesome in your rock solos and in this guitar lesson I'll show you 3 legato lines for rock guitar you don't want to be without. These legato licks make a great legato practice routine or legato workout too if you want to improve your legato technique and your finger strength and accuracy. And the sliding blues scale shape I show you in this lesson really lends itself to playing legato, meaning with a little practice you can soon be creating legato licks and runs of your own. After looking at the sliding A blues scale shape used for the lesson it's time for the first legato lick. It's ascending the scale pattern using a repeating legato pattern. Break it up into chunks to make it easier to learn and build your legato chops bit by bit. The second legato lick is the kind of idea you might hear Paul Gilbert play. It's a repeating blues scale fragment which is a useful addition for high energy rock solos. The third legato lick descends the sc

Get faster guitar fingers with this simple guitar finger independence exercise. Practice daily and see faster, more accurate and stronger guitar fingers in just a week or so! Ok, so this exercises doesn't sound like much...but it'll boost your fret hand strength. speed and accuracy quickly...and it best of all only takes a minute to learn, so you can put it into your guitar practice routine today. Guitar finger independence exercises like this can be really helpful. Increased finger independence simply makes playing guitar easier! So whether you play rock, metal, blues or whatever...boost your finger independence and see the benefits of better guitar control, faster guitar fingers, and more freedom to play guitar the way you want to play! My awesome guitar lessons and tutorials covering improvisation and soloing, guitar chords and scales, great guitar licks, music theory and more are guaranteed to help YOU take your guitar playing to the next level. With clear explanations,

Guitar practice time? Here are 5 tools which you'll need to help you get the most from your session and see great results every time you practice your guitar. Just deciding to 'practice guitar' won't get you where you want to be unless you're doing it the right way! The 5 guitar practice tools I share in this video will help you stay on track, remember what you've learned, develop a good practice routine , manage your practice time more efficiently and ultimately make you a better guitar player! Having these 5 practice tools in your practice room will help you get off to a flying start with your practice session, so keep them close by. Let's look at them one by one: 1) Timer to help you break up your session and cover all the areas you want to practice. A small digital egg timer is perfect, or you can use the stopwatch on your phone 2) Blank tab paper to keep a record of any cool ideas you discover. We can learn a lot from ourselves when we do our guit

Power Chords:  Learn the power chord shapes for guitar you need to play rock and metal  with this simple memory/learning technique. Learning and remembering the power chords you need on guitar can be tricky and take time, but I'll show you a simple method you can use to nail them fast and remember and find them when you need them. Good news huh? Power chords are an important part of any guitarists chord library. Obviously, they are used in rock and metal guitar, but you'll also hear them in punk, country, pop, funk and other common guitar styles. So, chances are that you need to know the power chords in this lesson. You'll learn four common power chords in this tutorial: starting on the E, A, D and G strings. We'll group them together into 'octaves' to make them easy to learn and remember. I'll also give you tips on how to combine them and layer them to get some cool guitar sounds happening. So guitar player, strap in and prepare to learn the most impo

Rock Solo Tricks - this killer double stop idea is amazing for jamming out high energy rock licks. Think Zakk Wylde, Slash, Schenker...they all use this in their epic solos. With this and other rock guitar solo tricks and licks you can start to power up your rock solos and start sounding like a better guitar player. Remember to always experiment with how to use them and most importantly give everything a solid rhythmic groove. Then this double stop trick can be a powerful addition to your guitar lick library. It's using C# minor pentatonic up at the 9th fret and uses three double stop bending ideas. These can be freely mixed up and combined to create dozens of cool rock licks. Try jamming over a backing track and see what you can come up with. Look out for more rock solo tricks coming in future lessons. Have fun! My awesome guitar lessons and tutorials covering improvisation and soloing, guitar chords and scales, great guitar licks, music theory and more are guaranteed to help

Blues Licks for Beginners Lesson Part 2. In this video tutorial discover 3 more blues licks for beginners. These authentic but basic blues licks are perfect for helping you learn to play great blues solos and licks of your own. Learn to play these licks and you're on the way to sounding like a great blues guitarist. In this free blues guitar lesson, I'll show you how to play licks used by all great blues players. All these licks are from the blues scale, the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock. We'll be playing in the key of A and these licks will work great over a 12 bar blues in the key of A. If you are just starting out playing blues licks then jump in and get started the right way! Then armed with these blues licks you'll have ideas to use in your own improvisation. Good luck! Backing track used in the lesson is here: https://youtu.be/n-WEY_Mgblw My awesome guitar lessons and tutorials covering improvisation and soloing, guita

Want to play guitar faster? Build your speed, get faster fingers, and more improve fret-hand accuracy with my 'speed stacking' exercise. This speed exercise is based on the idea of pushing ourselves to top speed for a short period of time, and then gradually starting to maintain that speed for longer. With practice, we can see dramatic results in our playing speed fast! We're going to look at increasing the speed of a repeating blues scale lick. It's using hammer ons and pull offs and is a great way to speed up your fingers! But this speed exercise works for almost any lick, whether picked, tapped or whatever. So adapt the exercise to build your playing speed in whatever area you want to. We'll be using a metronome to build our speed in this lesson. A metronome is a great way to measure progress and to keep us in time. We start the metronome off slow and gradually increase it up to warp speed... After finding your cruising speed (explained in lesson) push your

BEGINNERS BLUES LICKS LESSON PART ONE: In this video tutorial you will learn 3 blues licks for beginners. These basic blues licks are essential for all blues guitarists, and once you can play these licks you're well on your way to being a bluesman! Inside these beginners blues licks you'll find many of the essential tools used by the blues guitar greats: the tastiest string bends, double stops and blues rhythms to give your licks that bluesy groove. These blues licks are all coming from the A blues scale played at the 5th fret and will all work great over a 12 bar blues in A. The blues scale is the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock. If you are just starting out in blues licks you should definitely check out this video to learn it, and get a bunch of ideas to use from it. And with these blues licks in your arsenal, you'll be all set to start trying to play your own blues solos and improvisations.  Practice to the backing track for this

Rock guitar backing track for E minor jamming. Practice jamming in a 'dirty' rock style similar to bands like Guns'n'Roses, Motley Crue, Love/Hate and others. Practice rock soloing, guitar scales, new lick ideas or creating riffs of your own. This guitar backing track and my other backing tracks are perfect to use with my video lessons and tutorials on my channel. Practicing guitar with backing tracks is one of the best ways to get used to playing with other players in a band setting. You get used to playing with a groove, improvising and soloing, it can be great ear training, you learn to listen to what's going on around you and you get used to playing...not just practicing! Hope you enjoy my guitar backing tracks look for more coming regularly. Scale suggestions for this rock guitar backing track: The backing track is in the key of E minor so try using scales like E minor pentatonic, E blues scale or E natural minor scale (also called E Aeolian mode). Try